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LD 1650 

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1826 OS^SW 

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OF 



m CARLISLE, Penns'a. 

AS REVISED AND ADOPTED BY 

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, 

MAY ist, 1826. 

TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, 

THE RULES 

iroR THE GOVERJ^MEJ^T OF THE STEWARD ; 

AN iipCOUNT 

OF THE EXPEJ^rSES i 

AND THE :^rLES 

OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 



PRINTED AT THE HERALD OFFICE, 



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THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE, 



WILLIAM NEILL, D, D, Princifial-^\ectures on the Truth and 

Evidences of Divine Revelation, and 
assists in vaiious branches of Study 
alloited lo the different classes. 

HENPY VETHAKE, J. M. Professor of J^athematics and J^atu- 

rat Philosofihy who albo teaches 
Chemistry, and Political Ecoijomjr. 

Rev. ALEXANDER M'CLELL^ND. A. M. Professor of Rheto^ 

ric^ and Moral Philosofihy — who also 
teaches Geograph)^ and History. 

Rev. JOSEPH SPENSER, A, M. Professor of the Latin ^ Greek 

Languages. 

Rev. LEWIS MAYER, Professor of History and German Lite" 

raiure. 



JAMES M'NEELY, d. M, Teac/ier of the Grammar School. 



ERRATA. 

In fiage lOy sec, l\y — Introduce the word to before ^2l certificated 

fiage \2,'--Strike out the words at least two weeks previously, 
at the close of sec. 5, 

Let see, 10, of chap, 6, be the 8th sec* of chap,, 1. 



STATUTES 

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CHAPTER I. 

(^ THE IMMEDIATE GOVERNMENT OF THE COLLEGE. 

Sec, 1. The government of the College is essentially 
vested in the Faculty. 

2. It shall be administered, as nearly as possible, after 
the manner of a well regulated family. 

3. Private advice, affectionate entreaty, and frequent ad- 
monitions shall always precede the more stern measures of 
public admonition, and exclusion from the institution, ex- 
cept when offences are flagrant and publicly c6mmitted. 

4. The Principal and Professors constitute, and shall be 
styled THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. 

5. The Faculty shall hold a stated meeting on the day 
preceding the commencement of each session in every year, 
and as often as a majority may direct, and the Principal shall 
have authority to summon special meetings at his discretion. 

6. The Faculty shall have power to direct the applica- 
tion of the ensuing statutes, to make all regulations for the 
government of the College, not contrary to these statutes, 
and to annex thereto, such means of enforcement, as ta 
them may seem just and necessary. 

7. The Faculty, in the absence of the Principal, shall 
have full power to perform such acts of government, as 
may to them seem necessary ; and their acts shall have as 
full force and virtue, as if he were present. 



CHJPTER IL 

OF THE CLASSES, OP ADMISSION INTO THE COLLEGE, 
AND OF THE COURSE OF STUDY. 

Sec. 1. The Students shall be divided into four classes : 
each class to continue one year : those of the first year shall 
he dmommatGd Freshmen; those of the second y^ar, Sopho- 
mores ; those of the third year, Juniors ; and those of the 
fourth year, Seniors. 

2. Applicants for admission into the Freshman Class 
must be approved by the Faculty on an examination, in 
Latin, on Caesar's Commentaries ; the Orations of Cicero 
against Cataline; and the first four books of Virgil's Eneid: 
in Greek, on the Gospel of John, and Dalzell's Collectanea 
Minora: and in Arithmetick, as far as the Double Rule of 
Three. 

3. When any particular book, above mentioned, shall 
not have been studied, it is expected, that the applicants 
for admission shall be prepared in an equal amount of 
Latin and Greek. 

4. Applicants for admission, who shall not have been in 
any College before, must, on examination, satisfy the Facul- 
ty of their acquaintance with the subjects of study, which 
are required of the students of Dickinson, previous to that 
stage of the course at which they propose to enter. 

5. No student shall be received from any other College, 
without satisfactory testimonials of character. 

6. Students from other Colleges, with good credentials 
of their character and standing may be admitted ad eundenj. 

7. The commencement of each Session shall be the 
stated periods of admission, particularly of the winter 
session, which applicants are requested to bear in mind. 

8. Every student, inVm^f-iSi^tely at his entrance, shall at^ 
test in writing (in a book kept' fcr that purpose by the 
Faculty) as follows : I, A. B. solemffty J>Tx)mise, on my 
truth and honour, to observe and obey all the laws, rules, 
and regulations of Dickinson College. 



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9. Each student shall write in a book, called the -Mz^ 
triculation hook^ his own name at full length, and the name 
and place of abode, of his parent, guardian, or person by 
whom he is sent to College : and no young man shall be 
considered as fully a member of the Institution, until he 
be matriculated : But, after his literary qualifications are 
approved, he shall attend with, and do the duties of the 
class he proposes to enter, for six weeks, during which 
time he shall be on trial : and if his behaviour shall be rude, 
disorderly, or immoral, he shall at the expiration of that 
time, or sooner if circumstances require, be sent home. 

10. Young men who may not find it convenient to go 
through a complete College course, may, at the request of 
their parents or guardians be admitted and allowed to at- 
tend such recitations and prelections of the professors as 
they and their parents or guardians may select — provided, 
that such students shall have undergone an examination in- 
to their qualifications to pursue the particular studies. 

11. Young men pursuing their studies in this manner, 
shall not be entitled to Academical degrees or honours un- 
less they shall have made up for all deficiencies, by the 
middle of the senior year ; but a certificate with the seal of 
the Corporation (and signature of the Professors) attesting 
the degree of their proficiency and attainments. 

12. Students of this description shall in all other respects 
be under College Laws and Regulations, except by special 
permission of the Faculty. 

13. The College course shall be divided into two 
sessions, the First with which the Academical year com- 
mences, beginning precisely Jive weeks after the fourth 
Wednesday of September, and continuing for the twenty- 
three weeks following ; the Second, beginning precisely 
nineteen weeks before the fourth Wednesday of September^ 
and continuing till the Commencement. 



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14. THE FRESHMAN CLASS SHALL STUDY 



FIRST SESSION, 
Vulgar and Decimal Arithmetick, 
Algebra, as far as the end of sim- 
ple Equations, 
Ovid's Metamorphnses, 
Xenophon's Cyropsedia, 
English Grammar, revised? 
English Reading, Composition, 
and Declamation. 



FIRST SESSION, 

Euclid's Elements, 

The last eight books of Virgil's 
Eneid, 

The first half of the 1st volume 
of Dalzell's Collectanea Ma- 
jora, 

English and Latin Composition, 

Reading & Declamation, in Eng- 
lish, 

Ancient & Modern Geography. 



FIRST SESSION, 

Plane and Spherical Trigononne- 
try, 

Mensuration, Surveying, 

Navigation, The use of the globes, 

Conic Sections, 

Quinctilian, Virgil's Georgics, 

Dalzell's Collectanea Majora, 2 
vol. 

Greek & Latin Composition, 

Beading and Declamation in En- 
glish, 

Rhetoric, English Composition, 

Elements of Logic. 



SECOND SESSION, 
Sallust, 
Homer's Iliad, 

Algebra, to the end of Quadratic 
' Equations, 
Reading of English, 
English Composition and Decla- 
mation, 
Elements of Ancient and Modern 
I Geography, 

SOPHOMORE CLASS, 

SECOND SESSION. 
lEuclid's Elements, 
Algebra continued, 
Terence or Livy, 
Dalzell's Collectanea Majora, (re-? 

maininghalf of 1st vol.) 
English and Latin Composition, 
Declamation, 
History, 
Chronology, 
Grecian & Roman Antiquities* 

JUNIOR CLASS, 

SECOND SESSION, 
Theory of curved lines, 
Fluxions, Mechanics, 
Horace, Demosthenes, especially 

his Oration, de Corona, 
Gre6kand Latin Composition, 
Elements of Moral Science, 
English Composition, 
Declamation. 



FIRST SESSION, 
Experimental Philosophy, 
Chemistry, 
Cicero de officiis ct de Natura 

Deorum, Longinus, 
Greek and Laun Composition, 
Universal Grammar, 
Declamations in English of the 

Student's own composition, 
Philosophy of Mind, 
I^ecessity and Evidences of Di 

vine Revelation* 



SENIOR CLASS, 

SECOND SESSION, 
Astronomy, Tacitus, 
Horace de arte poetica, 
The Medea of Euripides, 
The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sopho- 



cles, 

Greek and Latin Composition, 
Declamations in English of the 

Student's own composition, 
Criticism, Principles of Political 

Economy, Evidences of Divine 

Revelation, Moral Philosophy. 



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CHAPTER IIL 

OF ASCERTAINING THE PROGRESS OF THE STUDENTS. 

Sec, 1. Every instructor shall keep a roll of his class, 
which shall be called over at the hour of lecture, and the 
manner of their attendance noted. He shall also mark 
their performance in every exercise. This mark shall be 
common to all the instructors ; and, in connection with 
other circumstances, which the Faculty may deem import- 
ant, shall determine the relative standing of the student, at 
such stated times as the Faculty shall appoint. 

2. A circular letter, addressed to the parents or guardians 
of each student respectively, shall be forwarded by the Fa- 
culty at the close of each session, or oftener if they shall 
think necessary, containing a statement of his relative stand- 
ing in his class, and how often he has been reported for ne- 
glect of studies or for violation of the College laws. (p. 210, 
minutes. ) 

3. If a student shall be found incapable of proceeding in 
his class, with advantage to himself, the Faculty may arrest 
his progress ; it being always understood, that if he shall 
make up his deficiency, he may regain a standing in his 
former class. 

4. There shall be a general examination of all the stu- 
dents of College immediately preceding the close of each 
session, on the subjects of studies they shall have pursued 
from the beginning of the session to the date of the exam, 
ination. 

5. The Senior class shall be examined for their degrees 
at a period not exceeding four weeks previous to the day 
of commencement : and during the interval, the members 
of this class shall continue to pursue their studies under 
the direction of tlie Faculty, unless they receive permission 
to return home ; but shall not be required to recite nor be 
subjected to any examination with the other classes at the 
close of the session, at least two weeks previously. 



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6. When any examination of the classes in College is to 
take place, notice shall be given by the Faculty at least two 
weeks previously in two or more of the public prints in 
Carlisle, both of the subjects on which the respective clas- 
ses are to be examined, and the days or hours appointed 
for such examinations. 

7. The examinations shall be very strict, but not pro- 
tracted : and shall be conducted by the Faculty in the 
presence of the Trustees and such other gentlemen as may 
think proper to attend. 

CHAPTER IV. 

OF EXPENDITURE. 

Sec. 1. Every student whose parents or legal guardian 
do not reside in the borough, shall have a guardian therein 
or some member of the faculty, to take charge of his neces- 
sary expenses ; with whom shall be deposited such a sum 
of money as his parent or legal guardian may think proper 
for the purpose. In the article of pocket money, which is 
left to the discretion of the parent or guardian, strict econo- ^ 
my is earnestly requested. 

2. No student shall, on any account whatever, contract 
any debt, except with the permission of his guardian in 
writing ; or he shall be considered as withdrawing from the 
College ; and if a parent or guardian shall pay a debt of a 
student unlawfully contracted, he shall, ipso factOy be con- 
sidered as removing his son or ward from the College. 

3. The dues for each session, shall be paid within four 
weeks after its commencement ; and any student having 
neglected during that time, to exhibit to the President of 
the College (who shall keep a regular record upon this sub- 
ject) the Treasurer's receipt for the same, & the receipt of 
the person with whom he may board, for charges for board- 
ing, shall be required to absent himself from the recitations 
of his class until he slvdU have complied with this rule. 



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4. In case of the non-payment of money for boarding 
when the student is at private lodgings in the borough, 
such arrangement must be made between the parties, as 
shall meet the approbation of the Faculty, 

5. Should a young man, arriving after the commence- 
ment of a session, enter College before the one half of it 
shall have expired, he shall pay all the college-charges for 
the session ; but at any time after that, but one half of the 
same. 

6. The Faculty shall some time during the first four 
•weeks of each session, furnish the Treasurer of the Col- 
lege with a correct list of the names of all the students, de- 
signating precisely the abode of each — whether boarding 
^nd lodging in the College edifice, or in the town. 

CHAPTER V. 

OF THE DEPORTMENT OF THE STUDENTS. 

Sec, 1. The students are to consider themselves, and 
each other, as young gentlemen, associated for the purpo- 
ses of mutual improvement ; and are to behave themselves 
accordingly ; avoiding all turbulence, rudeness, and vi- 
olence. 

2. They are to treat the Principal, Professors, and Tu* 

tors, on all occasions, with the most profound respect ; 
obeying, implicitly, all their law^ful commands; and in every 
respect, so demeaning themselves, as those who know that 
their character for correct behaviour, is not less important/ 
nor less at stake, than their character for intellectual 
acquirements. 

CHATTER VI. 

OF MISDEMEANORS AND OFFENCES. 

Sec, 1. If any student shall neglect his studies, or shall 
interrupt the studies of another, or disturb any officer in his 
lawful employment, or be guilty of profane cursing or swear- 
ing; of intoxication; of riotj of striking a fellow student; 



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of keeping the company of persons of known immorality; 
of playing at cards, dice, or other games of chance ; or of 
any other thing grossly immoral, of which the Faculty 
shall be the sole judges, he shall, at their discretion, receive 
any punishment short of dismission or expulsion, but, when 
in their opinion the offence shall merit the punishment of 
dismission or expulsion, it shall be the duty of the President 
of the Faculty to report the case, in writing, to the President 
of the Board of Trustees, with the attendant facts & circum- 
stances, who shall immediately convoke the said board, 
and submit the matter for its decision. But the Board shaU 
act exclusively on the written report of the Faculty, taking 
the facts therein set forth as conclusively established, and 
shall inflict such punishment as a majority of the Board 
may direct. 

2. If any student shall fight, or propose to fight a duel, 
or be in any wise concerned in promoting or abetting it, or 
in the giving or accepting of a challenge, or shall reproach, 
traduce, or treat disrespectfully, any student, for having 
refused to accept a challenge, he shall be expelled. 

3. If a student shall contumaciously resist the authority 
of the Principal, or any of the Professors or Tutors, he 
shall be dismissed or expelled, as the circumstances may 
render proper. 

4. If any student shall visit a tavern, house of entertain- 
ment, or eating house, without permission from some mem- 
ber of the Faculty, he shall be suspended or dismissed. 

5. If any student shall bring into his room, or have in 
his possession, any spirituous or fermented liquor, he shall 
be dismissed or expelled. 

6. No student shall keep for his use or pleasure, any 
riding beast; nor a dog, or gun, fire arms or ammunition; 
nor sword, dirk, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon what- 
soever; nor shall any student be permitted to ride out, 
without the permission of some member of the Faculty. 



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7. If, in the opinion of the Faculty, the character of a 
student shall be so vicious, as to render him an unworthy 
member of the College, and a source of corruption to the 
other students, he shall be admonished, and if he do not 
forthwith reform, his parent or legal guardian shall be 
requested to remove him from the College, and in case 
of refusal or delay, the Trustees are to remove him in such 
way as they may think proper, 

8. A Student who shall have been expelled, or twice 
dismissed, shall not be re-admitted. ' 

9. Every case not specifically provided for in these 
statutes, is remitted to the discretion of the Faculty or 
the Trustees as the case may require ; it being under- 
stood that the discretion of the former shall extend to the 
infliction of any punishment short of dismission or expul- 
sion; and in all cases where dismission or expulsion is 
specifically annexed, as the punishment of any particular 
offence; or where the quantum of punishment is discre- 
tionary, and the Faculty may be of opinion that dismis. 
sion or expulsion ought to be inflicted, it shall be the duty 
of the Faculty, and of the Trustees respectively, to pro- 
ceed accordmg to the provisions of the first section of 
this chapter. 

10. The Faculty shall record their proceedings in a 
minute-book to be kept for that purpose. 

CHAFTER VII. 

OF THE LIBRARY. 

Sec, 1. The Library shall be subject to such regula- 
tions as the Faculty and * 'Library Committee'^ may pre- 
scribe. 

2 They shall particularly designate the kind of books, 
which are not to be taken out. 

CHAPTER nil. 

OF RESIDENCE. 

Sec. 1. The boarding of the Students and the assigning 



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of their rooms, shall be under the controul and direction 
of the Faculty. 

2. There shall be no change in places of boarding or 
rooms of lodging, without permission of the Faculty* 

3. No student out of Commons shall be allowed to 
hire a room and lodge out of the house in which he 
boards. 

4. Every student, except at lecture, shall keep his room 
during study hours, which shall be regulated by the Fa- 
culty ; and no stranger, without the knowledge of one of 
the Faculty, shall be permitted to visit the rooms during 
these hours. 

5. The rooms of the students shall be visited as the Fa- 
culty may direct ; and, if any obstruction shall be put in 
the way of the visiting officer, he is authorized to cause it 
to be removed, even to the breaking of the door, at the ex- 
pense of the occupants ; who may otherwise be called to 
account for their improper conduct. 

6. Any damage to the College property, ascertained to 
have been committed by a student, shall be paid for by 
him. Damage done, when the offender cannot be discov- 
ered, shall be charged equally, to all the students. 

7. There shall at all times reside with the students in 
the College edifice, some member of the Faculty, or some 
of the Tutors. 

8. The rules in Appendix No. 1, with the exception of 
the 13th, are in full force, and to be respected accord- 
ingly. 

CHAPTER IX. 

OF RELIGIOUS DUTIES. 

tSec, 1. There shall be prayers and the reading of the 
Holy Scriptures, every morning and evening observed in 
the College Chapel by the Faculty, at such hours as they 
shskll appoint* 



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2. "The students shall attend divine worship, at such 
place as their parents or guardians shall prefer. 

3. Every student upon his entrance into college shall 
signify, the church or religious society to which he belongs, 
or with which he prefers worshipping; and be required by 
the Faculty to provide himself a seat in the same, unless 
his parent or legal guardian, disapprove thereof in writing* 

4. The Faculty may appoint such other religious exer- 
cises as shall not interfere with their regular studies. 

CHAPTER X, 

OF COMMENCEMENTS AND DEGREES. 

Sec. 1. The commencement shall be held on the fourth 
Wednesday in September, and the usual degrees conferred. 

2. On the day of Commencement, such candidates as 
the Faculty shall have previously selected, shall perform 
the exercises assigned to them, under peril, in case of non- 
compliance, of being refused their degree. 

3. Alumni of the College, who shall have demeaned them- 
selves in a worthy manner for three years after their com- 
mencement, shall receive the second degree, viz : of Master 
of Arts. The honorary degree of A. M. shall be awarded 
according to merit. 

4. No person shall be admitted to the degree of Doctor 
of Divinity^ or oi Doctor of Laws, unless his name be an- 
nounced to the Trustees, three months before the com- 
mencement, and upon the favorable report of a committee, 
appointed at the time of his nomination, upon proofs of his 
literary merit in that department of literature which the de- 
gree required may respect. 

5. Ail Bands of Music, or professional singers, that is, 
those who sing for hire; all Balls and Dances, and all Din- 
ners and Suppers are prohibited from being accompani- 
ments of the Commencement, under penalty of the stu* 
dents being refused a Degree, or under such other penalty 
as the Faculty may see proper to impose. 



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6. No student shall recite any Speech embracing political 
or national subjects, which might have a tendency, in any 
degree, to excite party feeling : and the Faculty are 
charged with enforcing this injunction. 

CHATTER XI, 

OF VACATIONS. 

Sec. 1. There shall be an intermission of the studies on 
the 4th of July, Christmas and New-year's days, and the 
22d of February. 

2. There shall be two vacations in the year : one be- 
ginning at the day of Commencement and continuing five 
weeks, the other beginning at the close of the Winter 
Session and continuing five weeks. 

CHAPTER XIL 

OF THE SOCIETIES. 

Sec. 1. The literary societies of the students shall be un- 
der the protection and controul of the Faculty. 

2. Their stated times of meeting shall be at such hours 
in the day as the Faculty may direct. Nocturnal meetings 
shall not be on any account permitted. 

3. They shall have power to adopt such regulations as 
they may think proper for the management of their busi- 
ness during the prescribed periods of meeting, except that 
it shall be unlawful to admit to their Halls any of their mem- 
bers who may have been expelled, dismissed, or suspended 
from College, during the period of such dismission or 
suspension. 



Of the Steward ; of Commons ; and of the 
Payment of the students. 

Article 1. A STEWARD shall, annually, be appointed, 
XJ^ who shall hold his office, from year to year, 
at the pleasure of the Trustees: The 8ieward shall have the 
right of resigning his office at the end of any one year, on giving 
to the Trustees three months previous notice of his determination; 
and he shall have similar notice from ihe Trustees, when they in- 
tend to remove him. 

2. The Steward shall have the use of such apartments in the Col- 
lege edifice, for the accommodation of his family and the StudentS| 
as shall be stipulated in his contract with the Board. 

3. He shall contract, with the advice and consent of the Faculty, 
with the servants ©f the College, who shall obey the directions of 
the Faculty in the discharge of the several duties incident to their 
stations, & shall be immediately dismissed by the Steward, when, in 
the opinion of the Faculty, it shall become improper for theiw to be 
connected with the College. The Faculty anc! Steward shall pre- 
scribe the duties of the servants, ^o females shall be employed as 
servants in the College ; nor shall the Steward retain, in the kitch- 
en department, any servant, in opposition to the advice and repre- 
sentations of the Faculty. 

4 He shall furnish all students, professors, and tutors, who shall 
be admitted to lodge in the Colletie edifice, with good and suf- 
ficient food, well prepared and cooked, & regularly served up three 
times a day, at the rate stipulated in his cntract with the Board. 

5. He shall publish proposals, annually, for supplying wood for 
the use of the students in College, and shall contract for sufficient 
quantities, on the best terms he can procure the aanie ; to be de- 
livered previous to the 1st day of December; the expenses of 
which, and of cutting and piling the same in the wood house, and in 
the students chambers, shall be paid when he shall have presented 
to the Committee of Accounts, the receipts of those from whom he 
has purchased the wood, and by whom it has been cut 4nd piled, 
and received the order of the President upon the Treasurer, 

6. He shall contract with contpetent and proper persons to wash 
for all who shall lodge in the College edifice, at a rate not exceed- 
ing twelve dollars a year, and shall, once a week, send all clothes, 
or such as shall be put in readiness by the students, to be washed 
and mended ; and at reguiar and proper times return the same : 
the expenses of which to be paid, when the receipts for washing 
shall have been presented as above. 

7. He shall keep a book, in whicn he shall make fair entries of the 
time when each student shall c ramence lodging in the College, or 
enter into Commons, and shall make all other entries that niay be 
necessary or the settlement of his own accounts, from time to 
time, as well as those of every student lodging with him, which 
book shall be subject to the inspection of the Trustees. 



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8. In paying the StewarJ, a deduction shall be made for the 
privileges he may enjoy, in such sum as shall be stipulated m his 
contract with the Board. 

9. The Steward shall be entitled to draw from the Treasury, od 
orders given by the President, such sums as may be due to him, 
agreeably to his contract with the Trustees, for boarding the stu- 
dents, professors, and tutors lodged in the College ; Provided, 
That payment shall at no time be demanded for more than three 
months in advance : And, provided further, that he shall not draw 
for more money than will be actually due to him at the expiration 
of a term. 

10. The accounts of the Steward and Students, severally, shall 
be closed on the books at the end of each term. 

1 1. The students shall find their own beds, bedding, candles, and 
all the necessary furniture of their chambers. 

12 Before the name of any student shall be entered on the books 
of the Steward, he shall, at the commencement of each term, or im- 
mediately after his arrival, exhibit to the President of the College 
the Treasurer's receipt for the dues of that term, who shall 
furnish him with a certificate of the fact, to be handed to the Stew- 
ard, and filed as a voucher ; except in the following case, viz. If a 
student shall not, at the commencement of the term, be in funds to 
pay the dues of that term immediately, he shall nevertheless, have 
his name entered upon the Steward's books, and be permitted to 
be in Commons, for the space of four weeks ; but if at the expira- 
tion of that period he shall not have paid the dues of the term, and 
produced his certificate, he shall give his note to the Steward, for 
the payment of his board and washing during that time, and with- 
draw from the College edifice; it being distinctly understood, that 
the Steward is to look to the student alone for payment. 

13. No student who is capable of attending on the exercises of 
the College, shall be permitted to be out of Commons, unless he 
lives with his parents, or legal guardian, or a professor, or relative; 
the relative being at the same time a householder: until, in the 
opinion of the Faculty, it shall be improper to intr<)duGe any more 
into the College edifice. 

14. No student that has previously been admitted into College, 
arriving after the commencement of a session, shall sustain any de- 
ductions, whatever, in any of the charges for the term, except it 
shall appear to the Faculty to be proper and necessary. 

15. The Steward shall commence boarding the Students on the 
1st day of each session; on which day, the students shall enter into 
Commons: and he shall continue to provide for them, without in- 
termission, till they are dismissed. 

16. The students shall cease to be in Commons on the day after 
the commencement, and shall withdraw from the College edkfice 
during the whole period of each vacation. 

17. No student shall be permitted to put himself, at any time, 
out of Commons, without a written order from the President, 
or some member of the Faculty ; nor shall such order be 
granted, except in case of sickness rendering it necessary — ; 



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to be certified by a physician— or, in case it shall appear 
to the President or Professor, that there are other reasons, 
sufficiently great and urgent, to justify the same. The Faculty 
shall judge in all such cases ot exemption from being in Commons, 
whether any, and if any, what amount of money, advanced for 
board, shall be refunded; and when such money shall be repaid, a 
proportional reduction shall be made from the Steward's charge. 
In all other cases of students withdrawing from College, the Fac- 
ulty shall judge whether any part of the nioney advanced by them 
to the Treasurer shall be refunded. 

18. The wood account shall be opened at the commencement of 
the first or Winter Session, and kept with each lodging room and 
professor's hall in the College edifice. The Steward shall desig- 
nate on his books the No. of each lodging room, &c. with the names 
of the students occupying it. No change shall be made or allowed 
by the Faculty in the occupants of any room, or recognized on the 
Steward's books, until the wood and stove account of that room is 
brought up to the date of the change, and closed by information 
and order of the Faculty, and when any such change shall take 
place, each occupant shall be assessed and debited on the Steward's 
books with his proportion of the amount charged against the room, 
and a new account opened with it as at first. This rule is to be 
understood as applying to all changes whatever, made in the occu- 
pants of any room, whether by increasing or diminisliing the num-> 
ber, or changing the individual occupants. 

19. The Faculty may allow students to procure lodging rooms 
for themselves in the vicinity of the College edifice, and exempt 
them from the charges of room rent (except as made against all 
students not in Commons) fuel and stove rent, firovided, that they 
board with the Steward, and are subjected to the same system of 
visitation established for those in the College edifice. The Stew- 
ard is authorized to supply such with fuel should they wish it, at 
the same rate at which he furnishes it to those in the College build- 
ing, provided, that on delivery payment be made him, for which. 
he shall account to the Board. 

20. No student shall be allowed to withdraw from the College 
edifice to board or lodge in town, (except in case of sickness,) un- 
til his accounts with the Steward for washing, boarding, fuel, and 
stove rent shall be settled, and the drawback on other charges (if 
any shall be allowed) shall have been determined by the Faculty, 
and officially certified to the Treasurer. When this drawback is 
certified, the different items of which it may be composed shall be 
specified. 

20. In all cases of such removal, the Treasurer's and Steward's 
accounts must be previously settled, and the student must hence- 
forth procure his washing, fuel, &c» upon his own and his guardian's 
responsibility. % 

21. The Steward shall sell nothing: to the students, nor take 
money from them, on any pretence, whatever, except that he shall 
Ijiave the privilege of furnishing them with oil and candles. 



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22. The Steward shall not be compelled to provide any by- 
meal, except in cases of sickness. 

23. The order to be observed in the dining-room shall be pre- 
scribed by the Faculty. 

24. In all cases not specified in the above detail, the Faculty arc 
authorized to act for the good of the Institution. 



REGULATIONS OF THE 



jirticle 1. f |iHE supenntendance of the Grammar School is 
1 vested in the President of the College and a 
committeeof three Trustees, to be annually appointed, who are em- 
powered to visit the School, as often as shall be deemed necessary 
for its interests; to exercise any discipline sho.t of expulsion, aod to 
adopt such regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the 
general plan of instruction, not contract to the following rules : 

2. There shall be two sessions in the year— the first, called the 
Winter Sessionj commencing on the third Monday of October, and 
the second called the Summer Session, on the third Monday of 
May* 

3. The hours bf instruction shall be from 9 a m. to 12, and from 
2 p. M. to 5, during the winter session, except from the lOth day 
of November to the 1st of February, when the school shall be dis- 
missed at t past 4, p M. During the summer session the hours of 
instruction shall be from 8 to 1 1, a.m. and from 2 to 5, p. m. On 
Saturdays there shall be no school in the afternoon. 

4. The students shall remain in the school during the hours of 
instruction, and pursue their studies under the instruction of the 
teacher, excepi ihose in the fourth form, who may attend and be 
dismissed at such hours as the teacher and superintendants of the 
school /nay direct. 

5. The Grammar School, attached to the College, shall contain 
four foims. 

In the First, or lowest, the scholars shall learn by heart the gene- 
ral rules o/the Philadelphia Grammar, or such other as the teacher 
may prefer, and their application to parsing: They shall regular- 
ly recite l»^ssuns out of some approved vocabulary of the Latin lan- 
guajjf until the 'ieac^ier s ^aii judge ihem fit to be advanced to read- 
ir.jC, v-l en t»ie\ shall study the colloquies of Cordenus. They ihall 
ai^o cimuier.ce the writing of Latin from Mair's Exercises. 

In ( -t Sen»i{<! Fv rn? — They shall daily repeat a portion of the 
general xuiv.s of Ciriaumiar, and also learn the exceptions find ob* 



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servations : They shall commit to memory the Prosody of the same 
Grammar, and VVettenhaU's Greek Grammar, (with an Englisti 
translation.) They shall continue to make Latin from Mair's Ex- 
ercises : shall read the first six chapters of Lyne's Latin Primers 
applying^ the rules of construction — shall read Historia Sacra and 
Viri Romse, and study Howard's Greek Vocabulary. 

In the Third — They shall repeat a short lesson daily from each 
of the above named Grammars : shall study the Greek Syntax, and 
read in Latin, Csesar's Commentaries; and in Greek, the His- 
torical Books of the New Testament. 

In the Fourth — They shall repeat every other day a lesson in the 
Latin and Greek Grammars — shall study Lyne*s Latin Primer- 
Cicero's Orations against Cataline — the first four books of Virgil's 
Eneid, applying as they proceed the principles of Prosody — Ddl- 
zeli's Collectanea Minora, and Arithmetick as far as the end of 
Decimal Fractions — tliey shall also once a week write Greek Ex- 
ercises, using Neilson's Exercises as their model. In the last two 
forms they shall likewise study English Grammar and Geography, 
for the latter using VVoodbridge's Abridgement. For one half hour 
every morning and afternoon except on Saturdays, all the Students 
shall be employed in writing, with the exception of those only ia 
the fourth form. 

6 The time allotted for each form, i. e. which a boy must spend 
in each, is to be regulated by his improvement: it being un- 
derstood that no boy shall, on any account, pass from a lower to a 
higher, without being accurately versed in the studies of the 
form preceding: and, on the other hand, that any boy, so versed, 
may be promoted to a higher form, whatever be the length of time 
spent in a lower one. 

The principle of this rule is to be applied, without exception, to 
all boys who shall come from other schools; or shall have made 
some progress in their grammatical studies. 

7- No scholar belonging to the Grammar School shall be permit- 
ted to board or lodge in the Coilege edifice. 

8. Each scholar upon his admission to the Grammar School, shall 
pay to the Board of Trustees, on or before the 4th Monday after 
the commencement of each session, the sum of S15 for tuition. 
An additional charge of 75 cents per session shall be made on each 
student for room rent, and in the winter session the sum of gl 50 
shall be advanced by the same for fuel. A certificate from the Trea- 
surer of the above payments shall be required by 8c delivered to the 
teacher, to be preserved by him as a voucher when his accounts shall 
be settled at the close of each session. All damages committed upon 
the building occupied by the school, shall be charged upon such as 
may have committed them; & where the authors cannot be discover- 
ed, shall be assessed equally on all the students. It is left to the dis- 
cretion of the teacher to adopt the most economical plan for fur- 
nishing the scholars with stationary ; it being understood to be en- 
tirely at their own expense. Studeius eritering at any time after 
the first month of each session, shall pay a due pioporticnal of tnc 
charges of that session. b 



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9. If any scholar shall, without permission, or upon any offence 
taken notice of by the Teacher, withdraw from school, he shall not 
be received again, unless after confessing his fault before the whole 
school, and that fact being stated to the Principal of the College, he 
shall obtain a written order from him to be re-admitted. 

10. The utnnost exactness is to be observed by the Teacher, in 
executing the plan of instruction laid down in these rules, nor shall 
any deviation therefrom, take place, unless for special reasons it 
be permitted by the Faculty. 

11. The Teacher may avail himself cf the aid of his pupils in 
conducting the school: for which purpose the most advanced, expert, 
and well behaved boys, may be employed as monitors, who shall 
perform such duties, and be subject to such rules, as the Teacher 
shall prescribe; it being always understood, 

First, That the monitor's own studies be not neglected: 
Second, That the Teacher shall in all cases hear the monitors, 
and inspect their exercises and themselves, \yhen hearing an infe- 
rior class. 

Third, That no one but of unexceptionable character be a moni- 
tor, that being an honor reserved for exemplary scholars only. 

Fourth, That any monitor who shall grossly misbehave himselfi 
shall be degraded from his monitorship. 

12. Boys who shall make peculiar progress in their learning, and 
who are noted for their industry, order, gentleness, and good be- 
haviour generally, shall be distinguished by a certificate to that ef- 
fect, signed by the President of the College, and adjudged at the 
public examination. 

13. Attendance on Public Worship, Guardianship, hours to be 
observed alter school, visiting Taverns, or other Public Housesi 
riding out, &c. shall be regulated by the same rules as are pre- 
scribed to the Students of Dickinson College. 

14. There shall be an examination of the school commencing on 
the last Monday in each session, and continuing thereafter till the 
classes shall have been severally examined on the books they may 
have read, and the subjects studied during that session. The ex- 
amination shall be strict, but not protracted; and shall be conduct- 
ed as the Teacher and Superintendants shall determine, in the 
presence of the Trustees, Parents or Guardians of the scholars. 
Timely notice of such examinations sliall be given by the Teacher 
to the Trustees and Parents. 

15. The Teacher shall keep a Roll of all the scholars, which shall 
be called over at the hour appointed for the commencement of the 
school, both morning and afternoon, and the manner of attendance 
of each scholar shall be particularly noted. He shall also mark in a 
book to be kept for the purpose, the performance of each scholar in 
every branch: which book, together with a summary view of the 
attendance, and relative standing and behaviour of each scholar, to 
be prepared by the Teacher at the close of each session, shall be 
submittec; to the inspection of the Trustees and Parents, on the final 
day of examination. A brief circuUr containing an extract from 



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the ab«ve, shall be prepared and forwarded bj the Teacher to the 
Parent or Guardian of every scholar, at the close of each session, 
16. There shall be two Vacations: the first commencing three 
weeks previously to the third Monday of May — and the second 
three weeks previously to the third Monday of October. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS • 

020 773 535 8 

Exclusive of Clot Ing, Books and Pocket Money. 

FIRST, OR WIJ^TER SESSIQJ^. 
Commencing: precisely Jive weeks after the fourth Wednesday of 
Sefitember, and continuing for the twenty-three weeks following. 
Boarding for Twenty-three weeks at gl 874 per week S43 ISi 
Room rent - . . 6 00 

Fuel and Stove Rent, (an account will be kept with each 
student, and settled at the close ot the Session, when if it 
shall appear that the sum advanced is greater than the ac- 
tual expenses of the fuel and the contingent expenses of 
College in procuring it, the overplus shall be refunded; & 
It no stove has be m used, Two Dollars for stove rent shall 
also be refunded; but should there be any deficiency in 
the sum advanced, it must be made up) 14 oo 

Fuel of recitation rooms , 1 50 

;^^«>i"S* - - 6 00 

Tuition . . 19 50 

Janitor's wages - - 2 50 

Use of Library - . 1 00 

SECr ND, OR SUMMER SESSIOJ\r, 

Commencing firecis fly nineteen weeks before the fourth Wednesday 
of Seht ember, and continuing till the Coinmencement on that day. 
Boarding for Nineteen weeks at gl 87J per week g35 62| 

Room rent - . 6 00 

Washing* - - 6 00 

Tuil on, . . 19 50 

Januor's wages - . 2 50 

Use of Library - . j qq 

Sro 62| 
Su7n total of Annual Exfienses (entrance excluded) S164 25 

* Whenever ihe number of pieces delivered for washing shall 
average in the quarter, more than fifteen per week, the Student so 
delivering shall be cliarged at the rate of thirty-three cts. per dozen, 
for such excess. 

Damages in the rooms will be assessed at the expiration of each 
Session, and charged to the occupants. Extraordinary damages, or 
such as are committed out of the chambers, when the individuals 
commitlifjg them cannot be discovered, will be assessed on all the 
Students, whether boarding in the building or out of it, and charged 
accordingly. Students, who do not board in the College edifice, 
are exempt from the charges of Fuel and Stove rent, Washing and 
Room rent in part— Two Dollars each Session being required from 
them for the use of Recitation rooms. 

VHE END» 



